Throughout the previous months of shocking pet dog culls in many provinces in China we have been in constant contact with leaders of the 32 Animal Protection groups who attended our Guangzhou Companion Animal Symposium held in March 2006.

We also gathered and translated information from international experts on responsible rabies reduction programmes which have been effective in other countries and passed these papers on to the authorities in China. Following requests for meetings in Yunnan, Shandong, Chengdu and Nanjing, the authorities in Nanjing responded and Jill and Christie Yang, AAF's China Relations Manager, immediately flew to Nanjing for meetings with Ms. Ha who runs the local shelter and the Nanjing Police Department. For more information please see our press release below.

Please also take a moment to write a letter of thanks to the Nanjing Police Department supporting and applauding Nanjing's decision to find humane ways to tackle the problem of rabies and stray dog overpopulation. Please send your letter c/o Animals Asia either by email to
info@animalsasia.org or by snail mail to:
Animals Asia Foundation
GPO Box 374
Hong Kong
cc mertens.rosa@skynet.be

We will allow these letters to accumulate and present them to the authorities at the appropriate time.